[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: exposing table searchpath
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:06:26 +0100
On Thu 21/06/12,08:41, Christian Egli wrote:
> Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Orca/NVDA/any other program needs to know what tables are available,
> > so that they can be presented in a nice/user friendly combobox for the
> > user to select from.
>
> OK, that makes perfect sense. But then you don't really want to know the
> PATH to the tables. Instead you want to know the tables, i.e. the tables
> that you as an Orca user can use. So no dis tables, no include tables,
> etc. And all of this of course with a nice (translatable) name. This
> seems to come back to the age old discussion of the mapping between iso
> language code, grade, number_of_dots and liblouis table file. Maybe we
> should offer an API to query this instead.
Yes exactly, this is the plan, but it would be good to provide something in the
meantime, while we sort out what/how exactly things should be done.
I am hoping that we can work on this after 2.5.0 is out.
Mesar
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